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High youth unemployment in parts of Europe and disappointing growth expectations in the emerging world could mean mass protests this summer, Niall Ferguson told CNBC Tuesday.
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The Swiss National Bank is opening a branch in Singapore to allow for round-the-clock management of its foreign exchange reserves, which it needs to tap to defend the safe-haven franc from over-heating.
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European bank debt, once an investment pariah, is suddenly popular. The NYT reports.
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Spain may not be fully out of the woods, but investors' favorable attitude towards the country suggests it is biding its time well and may get not need to request a bailout, analysts told CNBC.
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The common currency is steadying and the yen is sliding - which is giving this pro an idea.
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CNBC's Kelly Evans reports on all the market moving events from Europe, including
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European stocks ended lower on Thursday, with a key index hitting a two-month low, as data that showed the euro zone had slipped into recession again spooked investors.
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New European Central Bank powers to oversee euro zone banks will help restore confidence in the sector and revive interbank lending, its president, Mario Draghi, said on Monday.
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Spain's economy is sinking deeper into recession, experts agree that the country will miss its budget targets and a several ECB officials have said Spain urgently needs a bailout, yet the bond market is dancing to a completely different tune.
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Daniel Rosen, Partner, Rhodium Group says investors should take risk despite the market volatility, adding that "sitting at home" will get you nowhere.
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Europe's largest financial institutions, which have been readjusting since the onset of the 2008 financial crash and the sovereign debt crisis that followed, are causing pain all over the globe that will have long term implications, according to analysts. They argue that the situation will only worsen without the proposed European banking union.
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As Southern Europe looks to be getting its house in order in the wake of the currency bloc’s debt crisis, a new report suggests France’s weaknesses are now becoming even more apparent.
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Rick Santelli strongly objects when Kelly Evans quotes a strategist calling the Republicans "lunatics" for threatening to push the U.S. into a "technical default" by failing to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.
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During a visit to the Bank of England on Thursday, the Queen was overheard asking whether a "lax" attitude to financial regulation had contributed to the financial crisis.
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CNBC's Ross Westgate reports stocks edged lower in a choppy day of trading after data on Europe's service sector showed a mixed picture.
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Japan could face aggressive new stimulus moves and the euro zone is back in recession — it's time for your FX Fix.
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Joe Weisenthal, deputy editor at Business Insider, tells CNBC that the euro zone needs to establish a transfer union like the one in the United States, where rich countries subsidize poorer ones.
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Joe Rundle, head of trading at ETX Capital, tells CNBC that the euro zone hasn¿t solved its problems and needs some form of event to push them into long-term action.
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Global banks operating in London have been warned by the top UK bank supervisor that this year’s staff bonuses must reflect the mis-selling and market manipulation scandals that have damaged the sector in the past 12 months. The FT reports.
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Lothar Mentel, CIO of Tatton Investment Management and Jim McCaughan, CEO of Principal Global Investments, discuss how Europe could still see a painful political event.
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The U.K. government is lifting a ban on controversial shale gas exploration in an attempt to reap the rewards that shale gas has produced for the U.S. energy market.
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Max Knudsen, chief market strategist at ADS Securities, highlights the strong improvement in the euro over the past four weeks and the growing confidence in the currency.
Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 11:30 AM ETAlberto Gallo, head of European macro credit research at RBS, prefers European high-yield bonds to U.S. bonds, over the medium-term.
Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 11:30 AM ETEuropean shares closed mixed on Tuesday, after better-than-expected economic data from Germany, and stock market gains in the U.S.
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The Federal Reserve won't change course on quantitative easing this week, Steve Weiss of Short Hills Capital says.
Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 7:10 AM ETAn airline passenger records a Chinese cargo handler as he tosses boxes of something on to and off of a conveyor belt for shipment. Hopefully, the cargo was packed well.
Tuesday, 18 Jun 2013 | 9:33 AM ETPlans to take PC maker Dell private by leveraging the company's balance sheet are misguided, CNBC's Jim Cramer said on "Squawk on the Street" Tuesday, because the company is facing lower margins and an increased competition from rival Hewlett Packard.